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what is in the water of arizona? i kept watching saying that's not my arizona. something else is happening. the tip, the tipping point for me was the night the young men from the eastern valley tribune won the pulitzer prize in the mismanagement and cases not taken care of, hundreds of cases of sexual abuse like child, rain, molestation, the incredible rates, incredible journalist won the pulitzer prize, but on tv, the toughest sheriff in america, the new memoir, which he admits he's not read, nor has he even written. nobody knew about the pulitzer prize winning writer. well, one man knew. he stood here in the corner with a big smile, had the chest out, part of a fringy 10th amendment movement, i'm not a citizen of the united states, but a citizen of the sovereign state. everybody had always said for years, don't worry about those people, they are fringy. janet said don't worry about that guy. he was circulating holocaust denying e-mails, hangs out with neo-nazi, he's so fringy, don't worry about him. he believed in this invasion coming from mexico at all costs
what is in the water of arizona? i kept watching saying that's not my arizona. something else is happening. the tip, the tipping point for me was the night the young men from the eastern valley tribune won the pulitzer prize in the mismanagement and cases not taken care of, hundreds of cases of sexual abuse like child, rain, molestation, the incredible rates, incredible journalist won the pulitzer prize, but on tv, the toughest sheriff in america, the new memoir, which he admits he's not read,...
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juan williams is a native of arizona, a master's degree at arizona state university and received his doctorate from the university of california santa barbara. throughout his high school and college, however, he spent most of his time playing drums in a variety of things. as a rock drummer he was part of several groups one of which opened for steppenwolf among other performers for those old enough to remember that. his first film, rocking the wall about rock music had spared in bringing down communism started airing on pbs this weekend will continue throughout this year. he serves on the faculty at the university of dayton where he has talked business, economic history and military history, he is the author of a dozen books including first, a patriot's history of the united states which he co-authored. other topics on which he is written include national defence, history, the u.s. economy. a television series based on winklevoss is currently in development as well. we are pleased to welcome juan williams to hear about his newest book, winklevoss which in this case will be from 1898 -
juan williams is a native of arizona, a master's degree at arizona state university and received his doctorate from the university of california santa barbara. throughout his high school and college, however, he spent most of his time playing drums in a variety of things. as a rock drummer he was part of several groups one of which opened for steppenwolf among other performers for those old enough to remember that. his first film, rocking the wall about rock music had spared in bringing down...
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one ceo of target in phoenix, arizona he has created a museum and has put around 200 million of his own money another friend gave 400 million to a health facility in nebraska, minnesota. bill gates paid 750 million i think to fight aids. we should get rid of touch it -- taxes as much as we can see you can descend have to spend your money rather than the government if you have a certain cause if you want to support it it would be nice if you have the choice for we're headed you'll be taxed in your money taken away it is a question. do believe the government should take your money and spend it for you? forty-one to spend it for you? he went on to say actually it is a surge to tax the productive billionaire guys because of everything they do for us. look at steve jobs, bill gates the government ought to pay them. why they collect money for what they have contributed? he also talks about the 47% and how dangerous they are. so that is a very familiar concept. in a way that this super rich and the way it feels that there is a more fragile connection but in conclusion i just want us for one mo
one ceo of target in phoenix, arizona he has created a museum and has put around 200 million of his own money another friend gave 400 million to a health facility in nebraska, minnesota. bill gates paid 750 million i think to fight aids. we should get rid of touch it -- taxes as much as we can see you can descend have to spend your money rather than the government if you have a certain cause if you want to support it it would be nice if you have the choice for we're headed you'll be taxed in...
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they later found out through the fbi and cia, some of those gems had even showed up in gem shops in arizona. so he was selling these gems to finance his whole, you know, this whole campaign. and, again, going back to that this is a remote valley, captain kyle walton and others on the team knew tactically that this plan was flawed. but even though they knew that it was flawed, knew that there was incredible danger landing the helicopter at the bottom of the valley and that they would have to climb to the top of the valley to get to this compound where they knew the bad guy was surrounded by some of the best mercenaries, so to speak, in the world, these really trained mercenaries who had been fighting the soviets and, for, you know, for that ten years during the 1980s, they still went, and they still went to carry out this mission. and i think, kevin, you can describe a little bit about what happened once they landed. >> okay. so they take off from a base on the border, jalalabad, and they fly into this valley. and there's some concern at this point about the plane. there's a certain window t
they later found out through the fbi and cia, some of those gems had even showed up in gem shops in arizona. so he was selling these gems to finance his whole, you know, this whole campaign. and, again, going back to that this is a remote valley, captain kyle walton and others on the team knew tactically that this plan was flawed. but even though they knew that it was flawed, knew that there was incredible danger landing the helicopter at the bottom of the valley and that they would have to...
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justice o'connor and chief justice rehnquist were both from the state of arizona. we don't think about that. so i think that reflects the fact that we are no longer a country that is really caught up in the geographic differences among us. you could say the same thing for religion. right now, as you may know,, justice stevens who retired two years ago was the last protestant on the supreme court and we now have the supreme court of six catholics and three jewish. how did that happen? there are some ways you could suggest that it happened but what it certainly reflects is that we don't care that much anymore about -- we do of course, are still very aware of race and ethnicity and gender. so the fact that there are now three lebanon the court, you know, that's a something. that is approaching a kind of a normalization of the notion that women can rise to the highest ranks in the legal profession. i think we are still waiting for more diversity in the court and race and ethnicity but the point actually want to make going back to how does the court now what it knows is
justice o'connor and chief justice rehnquist were both from the state of arizona. we don't think about that. so i think that reflects the fact that we are no longer a country that is really caught up in the geographic differences among us. you could say the same thing for religion. right now, as you may know,, justice stevens who retired two years ago was the last protestant on the supreme court and we now have the supreme court of six catholics and three jewish. how did that happen? there are...
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states like mississippi, georgia, texas and southern california and arizona and north carolina are all transformed in the post-world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. the latest period from 1964 to 2008 could be thought of this kind of the period of sun belt dominance in american presidential history. you think about every president elected from 1964 to 2008 comes from the state on the sun belt. when johnson from texas, richard nixon from california. gerald ford was never elected, so he doesn't count. jimmy carter from georgia, ronald reagan from california. the first george bush via connecticut. bill clinton from arkansas and the second question texas. so too does the natives and so ways a watershed election. it ends the 40 year. the sun belt dominance. their issues critical in the politics that developed that came out of the sun belt. they didn't have a conservative cast of them. they tended to be oriented about issues of strong national defense, and opposition to unions and a defense of free enterprise politics. and also
states like mississippi, georgia, texas and southern california and arizona and north carolina are all transformed in the post-world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. the latest period from 1964 to 2008 could be thought of this kind of the period of sun belt dominance in american presidential history. you think about every president elected from 1964 to 2008 comes from the state on the sun belt. when johnson from texas, richard...
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so, the states like mississippi and georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona and north carolina are informed in the post-world war two period by this historic shift in population and political influence and it is pogo from 1964 to 2008 could be thought of as the period of the sun belt dominance in american presidential history. you think about every president elected from 1964 to 2008 comes from a state of the sun belt. lyndon johnson, nixon from california, gerald ford was never elected so he doesn't count. jimmy carter, ronald reagan from california, the first george bush from texas, bill clinton from arkansas and the second bush from texas since 2008 is a watershed election. there were critical of the politics that the flood that came out of the sun belt. they tended to be oriented around issues of strong national defense of an opposition to the union and the defense of the free enterprise politics. and also it's in the sun belt in the south and the southwest that we see the rise by the 1970's to talk about is the religious right's involved in the political
so, the states like mississippi and georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona and north carolina are informed in the post-world war two period by this historic shift in population and political influence and it is pogo from 1964 to 2008 could be thought of as the period of the sun belt dominance in american presidential history. you think about every president elected from 1964 to 2008 comes from a state of the sun belt. lyndon johnson, nixon from california, gerald ford...
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i remember growing up in chandler arizona, and my dad was a ranch foreman on a cattle ranch. it didn't make a ton of money but it provided for my college education i don't know how she did but i looked across the street that way and i looked across the street diagonally and one of the richest families with a big farming family the lot next to them was their pool and their pool house yet who is the guest of the pool every single week? me. two plays monopoly with their kids? me. you don't see that much any more. they're highly insulated and really hit middle america at all either conceptually, culturally in terms of entertainment it's a terrible swift, and that is something we have to repair. >> when you say it's something we need to prepare what would you prescribe to be a fix for that given that undermining the idea of spontaneous order? >> i think all order has certain constraints that it acts within with oxygen, hydrogen so i think that spontaneous stuff has to happen when you have control of your borders and in english language. let me go back to a previous book to give a
i remember growing up in chandler arizona, and my dad was a ranch foreman on a cattle ranch. it didn't make a ton of money but it provided for my college education i don't know how she did but i looked across the street that way and i looked across the street diagonally and one of the richest families with a big farming family the lot next to them was their pool and their pool house yet who is the guest of the pool every single week? me. two plays monopoly with their kids? me. you don't see...
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i have a golf caddy in arizona, bought three kondos. how could golf caddy afford three condos, we got the financial crisis. this has a certain distance from the woes of the middle-class. even more surprising the growing sense of victimization, you may be taken aback by that. they really do, give you a few examples. and he is the guy who is behind marisa mayor, as an investor does great things, december of 2010 he sent an e-mail to his friends and the subject heading was battered wives and the battered wives were the wall street financiers who were accepting the abuse of president obama and the e-mail actually, written in the voice of a battered wife said he really love the sand when he hits us he doesn't mean it and most of the time it doesn't show and goes on in that vein. comparing himself to battered wives. another guy i spoke to, silicon valley investor and founder of a semiconductor company, the victimization of the superrich has become so extreme in united states that they are being treated like an oppressed ethnic minority. he fe
i have a golf caddy in arizona, bought three kondos. how could golf caddy afford three condos, we got the financial crisis. this has a certain distance from the woes of the middle-class. even more surprising the growing sense of victimization, you may be taken aback by that. they really do, give you a few examples. and he is the guy who is behind marisa mayor, as an investor does great things, december of 2010 he sent an e-mail to his friends and the subject heading was battered wives and the...
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i was born in arizona, but i was raised in new jersey. c-span: and where did you go to college? >> guest: i did my undergraduate work at colgate university in upstate new york, and i'm pursuing my doctorate at columbia university. c-span: skipping the master's? >> guest: i actually have two master's degrees as part of the ph. d. program. c-span: and what are those in? >> guest: they are an ma and an mfel in international relations c-span: when was the first time that you had any contact with richard nixon? >> guest: actually, i can get into how i originally wrote the letter to him. i was a junior at colgate and i was majoring in political science, and i was enrolled in a course on national security and foreign policy affairs. and that was taught by a very good, very conservative professor, and i consulted with this professor because i thought that i wanted to enter that area upon my graduation. so as i prepared to leave campus between my junior and senior years, he gave me several books to read, one of which was nixon's "1999: victory without war." and that book had such a treme
i was born in arizona, but i was raised in new jersey. c-span: and where did you go to college? >> guest: i did my undergraduate work at colgate university in upstate new york, and i'm pursuing my doctorate at columbia university. c-span: skipping the master's? >> guest: i actually have two master's degrees as part of the ph. d. program. c-span: and what are those in? >> guest: they are an ma and an mfel in international relations c-span: when was the first time that you had...
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they later found out that the fbi and cia were some of those have even showed up in shame shops in arizona. so you will find these gems to finance this whole campaign. again gordon back to this was the valley, the captain on the two new tactic with the plan was flawed. but even though the news that it was flawed, and that there was incredible danger and they would have to climb to the top of the mountain to get to this compound with a new it was surrounded by some of that, you know, some of the best mercenary so to speak at what really trained mercenaries were fighting for that 10 years. they still went and they still went to carry out this mission. i think you can describe a little bit of what happened when they went. >> okay, so they take off on the border of jalalabad and fly into this valley. there is some concern at this point obviously. there's concerned about the welfare comment there's a certain when that they could get in before the cloud cover can. they had to work quickly as well
they later found out that the fbi and cia were some of those have even showed up in shame shops in arizona. so you will find these gems to finance this whole campaign. again gordon back to this was the valley, the captain on the two new tactic with the plan was flawed. but even though the news that it was flawed, and that there was incredible danger and they would have to climb to the top of the mountain to get to this compound with a new it was surrounded by some of that, you know, some of the...
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point out that the question of the crisis in ethnic studies particularly with chicano literature in arizona and throughout the united states has largely been an issue that's been ignored shamefully and disgracefully by the mainstream of american literary life. we don't play that game. so we brought them together to talk about it. we are going to continue those associations and colesentation k superheroes and how that evolution taking place in those pages parallel the movement and the deepening of american democracy to borrow benson harding's phrase in regards the civil rights struggle to the black power era and how those changes influence these images and thus american popular culture particularly sinema and then bringing on recent black superhero which dr. adilifu nama will share a little bit more with you about today. it is a great pleasure to welcome subfive to the stage and present him with the american book award for 2012. [applause] >> thanks a lot. good afternoon everyone. let me say first of all that i am very honored to be here. i want to thank justin as well as the board members a
point out that the question of the crisis in ethnic studies particularly with chicano literature in arizona and throughout the united states has largely been an issue that's been ignored shamefully and disgracefully by the mainstream of american literary life. we don't play that game. so we brought them together to talk about it. we are going to continue those associations and colesentation k superheroes and how that evolution taking place in those pages parallel the movement and the deepening...
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i also want to point out the question of the crisis, particularly chicano literature in arizona and throughout the united states is an issue that has been ignored shamefully and disgracefully by the mainstream of american literary life. we don't play that game, so we brought them together to talk about it. we are going to continue those associations and collaboration with the poetry center at san francisco state and of course continue with the american book award. my colleague, carla brundage will be joining me at the podium tonight. but before we get to introducing her, i'd like to begin our awards ceremony with an extraordinary book from the university of texas, super black american in sonoma. and they staked out a unique territory by deciphering and interpreting the qualification of some of the representation and parallel to movement in the deepening of american democracy in regards to this the civil rights to the black power era and influence these images in best american popular culture, particular cinema and bring a non-a recent a black superhero, which will share a little bit more with
i also want to point out the question of the crisis, particularly chicano literature in arizona and throughout the united states is an issue that has been ignored shamefully and disgracefully by the mainstream of american literary life. we don't play that game, so we brought them together to talk about it. we are going to continue those associations and collaboration with the poetry center at san francisco state and of course continue with the american book award. my colleague, carla brundage...
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alabama has instituted one of the harshest immigration laws in the united states, very similar to arizona's. >> host: you have a chapter in here about some young girls when schools were first integrated. who were those girls? >> guest: um, are you speaking of the young african-american girls? >> host: yes, uh-huh. >> guest: well, the public schools in my, in my area were integrated in two steps. the first step was, um, the freedom of choice era is what they called it, when parents had the opportunity to send their children to white schools if they wanted to. and so my first black schoolmate was just one girl who was very shy, painfully shy. and then that was when i was in the fifth grade. then, when i was in the eighth grade, the public schools were fully desegregated, and that's when the races really began to mix in a way that had not been possible before in that area. >> host: where do your children go to school? >> guest: well, my children are grown now. i have my youngest daughter is finishing up her degree at the university of alabama. can and, of course, they grew up in fully-desegreg
alabama has instituted one of the harshest immigration laws in the united states, very similar to arizona's. >> host: you have a chapter in here about some young girls when schools were first integrated. who were those girls? >> guest: um, are you speaking of the young african-american girls? >> host: yes, uh-huh. >> guest: well, the public schools in my, in my area were integrated in two steps. the first step was, um, the freedom of choice era is what they called it,...
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he said that he would be in favor of the arizona law that's derided by some as the papers, please, law. and east against the original dream act -- and he's against the original dream act. so those are positions that he will be pressed about as his national profile rises and that he'll have to reconcile if he wants to scoop up a whole lot of hispanic votes and bring them to the republican party. >> host: mr. roig-franzia, the mormon aspect of marco rubio's childhood, what did you discover about that? can you walk us through that? >> guest: it's so interesting that he has a mormon background at all. when he was being talked about as a possible vice presidential candidate, some people were saying, wow, could it be an all-mormon ticket? because mitt romney was mormon. that's a little bit of an overgeneralization there. here's the situation. marco rubio was born catholic, grew up in miami, and his family moved to las vegas. they moved to las vegas because he had an aunt and uncle who lived there. his mother's sister. and this is a pattern that we see with immigrants. they follow their famil
he said that he would be in favor of the arizona law that's derided by some as the papers, please, law. and east against the original dream act -- and he's against the original dream act. so those are positions that he will be pressed about as his national profile rises and that he'll have to reconcile if he wants to scoop up a whole lot of hispanic votes and bring them to the republican party. >> host: mr. roig-franzia, the mormon aspect of marco rubio's childhood, what did you discover...
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larry schweikart is a native of arizona. he earned his bachelor's and master's of arizona state university and received his doctorate from the state california
larry schweikart is a native of arizona. he earned his bachelor's and master's of arizona state university and received his doctorate from the state california
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the two states that have tried this, maine and arizona, the incumbents get thrown out, which is surprising. the constitution gives you a right to lobby. the first amendment says, a right to petition for a redress or grievances. interestingly, does not require any response by the government. only required it accept the petition. i don't think the lobbying we're seeing in the state capitols and washington is what the founders had in mind. it's accompanied with campaign contributions or the threat of contributions to other people if you don't play ball, and they're the only people who are really being heard. so, i think fundamental reform of the campaign contributions system would be important. and my last book, free lunch, i suggested we put in place a set of rules that opposite your elected to an office like that's, you can't get involved in industries you wore on a committee, maybe pay you a lifetime pension so you're rue moved from the economy. it would be a lot cheaper than the things we're saying now that are extracting bills and hundreds of billions of dollars from peoples pockets that
the two states that have tried this, maine and arizona, the incumbents get thrown out, which is surprising. the constitution gives you a right to lobby. the first amendment says, a right to petition for a redress or grievances. interestingly, does not require any response by the government. only required it accept the petition. i don't think the lobbying we're seeing in the state capitols and washington is what the founders had in mind. it's accompanied with campaign contributions or the threat...